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The Geography of Rural Educational Opportunity

Jessica Drescher, Anne Podolsky, Sean F. Reardon, Gabrielle Torrance
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences May 2022, 8 (3) 123-149; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2022.8.3.05
Jessica Drescher
aPhD candidates in education policy at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, Stanford University, United States
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vol. 8 no. 3 123-149
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https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2022.8.3.05

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2377-8253
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  • Published online May 12, 2022.

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© 2022 Russell Sage Foundation. Drescher, Jessica, Anne Podolsky, Sean F. Reardon, and Gabrielle Torrance. 2022. “The Geography of Rural Educational Opportunity.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 8(3): 123–49. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2022.8.3.05. The research described here was supported by a grant from the Institute of Education Sciences (R305B140009). The article would not have been possible without the assistance of Belen Chavez and Demetra Kalogrides. The opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not represent views of the Institute of Education Sciences or the U.S. Department of Education. Direct correspondence to: Jessica Drescher, at jesscboyle@stanford.edu, 520 CERAS Building, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, United States. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

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  1. Jessica Dreschera,
  2. Anne Podolskya,
  3. Sean F. Reardonb and
  4. Gabrielle Torrancec
  1. aPhD candidates in education policy at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, Stanford University, United States
  2. bEndowed Professor of Poverty and Inequality in Education at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, Stanford University, United States
  3. cAnalyst at the University of Chicago Center for RISC, United States
  1. Correspondence author:
    Jessica Drescher, (jesscboyle{at}stanford.edu)
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